The third play in the Classic Thriller Season at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham is Janet Green’s Murder Mistaken which runs from Monday until Saturday.
Chapterhouse has three open-air productions in the Midlands this week, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire on Tuesday; The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame at Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, also on Tuesday; and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham on Saturday and Sunday.
Based on the 1990s Oscar-winning film, Ghost the Musical takes up a two-week residency at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham from Tuesday until Saturday, 24 August.
Four actors from Pantaloons Theatre Company stage Sherlock Holmes in the open air at Nottingham Castle on Wednesday.
GB Theatre Company performs two Shakespeare plays at Warwick Castle, A Midsummer Night's Dream on Thursday and Saturday and The Merchant of Venice on Friday.
An all-male cast performs Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus at the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham from Thursday until Saturday, 24 August.
Illyria takes to the outdoors to present Shakespeare’s As You Like It at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire on Friday.
European Elvis Champion 2011 Gordon Hendricks presents his new show Aloha From Hawaii at the Regent Theatre, Stoke on Friday.
London Festival Opera returns to Buxton Opera House with a new show, A Night at the Opera, which includes highlights from Mozart’s The Magic Flute and works by Rossini, Verdi, Bizet, Puccini, Offenbach and Gilbert and Sullivan, on Sunday.
The touring production of Disney’s The Lion King continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday, 28 September.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre All’s Well That Ends Well continues until 26 September while Hamlet and As You Like It both continue until Saturday 28 September; in the Swan Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean comedy A Mad World My Masters continues until 25 October and Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus until 26 October.